MVC4 MapRoute for CMS

Question

Am building a CMS using MVC4. My experience with MVC is limited and trying to create a MapRoute that can handle the page structured created by the CMS. URLs for the pages would be along the lines of website.com/About

To handle this I have come up with the following

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{p}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", p = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

This works fine for root level pages but if I want sub pages like website.com/About/OurTeam

I get a 404. Ideally what I would like is just be able pass either the whole url after the .com bit as a string and sort it out in the controller or to split the levels up as an array of parameters and pass that through as 'p'.

Hope that makes sense. Any ideas?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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You can use:

routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{*p}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", p = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

The asterisk indicates that it's a catch-all route. Keep in mind that these routes are extremely greedy, make sure that this stays below any specific routes.

You could also add a route constraint to this route which can determine whether the page exists in the database or something. See this post for more info.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Oct 25 '13 at 11:22

Henk Mollema

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That did the trick nicely, thanks. Can't believe I was so close, just missing 1 character. Will mark as answer as soon as stackoverflow lets me. Thanks – HuwD Oct 25 '13 at 11:27
@HuwD you're welcome, glad I could help. MVC contains a lot of small tricks (conventions actually) which are great if you get to know them! – Henk Mollema Oct 25 '13 at 11:29

MVC4 MapRoute for CMS

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